I have transcribed the entire 172 "Exercises" from Adler's A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language (1858, scanned version to be found at this Archive.org-page) together with the Key to the Exercises contained in Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language (henceforth called KEY; 1858, scanned version to be found at this Archive.org-page). The end result will be a side-by-side (English-Latin) PDF-version and a raw text file (both free of course).

I proofread it (quite diligently, I hope, but from experience I can tell that there are always a few blunders missed) and also tried to find errors in the KEY itself and suggest corrections. A few translations were missing, as well.

Now I need your help. Before creating the final digital version of the English-Latin version of Adler's "Exercises", the errors have to be amended. For that purpose I have created a list of all the mistakes, missing translations, etc., that I noticed. I probably missed a few but should have found most of the more obvious ones. Of course, suggestions for correction are welcome once the final version is put online.

I shall present the list of errors for comment in several installments. I would like you to look at each of them closely and tell whether the changes suggested by me are correct. I had to add a few translations, as well, for those missing in the KEY. Of course, there are many ways to translate an English sentence into Latin, as Adler himself points out in the Preface to the KEY prepared by himself. However, I tried to stick as closely to Adler's examples as possible. The task at hand is NOT to improve upon Adler's work but instead to correct and amend it in as close to his style as possible.

So, let's get rolling. Let's have a look at the format used. The exercises are mostly Question/Answer-pairs. Often you need to know both the question and the answer to know what gender or number to use. So in most cases I included both question and answer (Q&A). First comes the English Q&A, followed by the Latin one. My comments are attached in bold and red. Any page numbers given refer to the textbook, not the KEY.

Hm, I guess you are right. Cassell's dictionary actually gives these examples:

quiddam divinum, something divine

with partitive genitive, quiddam mali

Also quidquam seems to be more or less confined to negatives. Still I'm surprised at its use because Adler does not formally introduce quidam, quaedam, quoddam/quiddam until Lesson 16 (= Exercise 18). But so it goes, I guess.

Are you transcribing Adler? If so, I've already done it. I put the whole book into an Anki deck. I used cards with 3 fields, the first contains the Latin sentences or vocab the entire book: exercises and lessons, the second has English translations, and the third the connected grammatical information. It took me the last 3 and a half years to input this, and is around 13k cards, but the whole book and answer key is in it. If you're interested in it you can email me and I'll give you a link to the Googledoc containing my Anki file. If you want to take it out of Anki format you could just cut and paste from the cards into another file. Hope this can be helpful for you. Robert

I had difficulty posting this, so sorry if this is duplicative. I wanted to let you know that I've transcribed all of Adler into an Anki deck. It has three fields for each card:1-the Latin sentence--from the sentences in the lessons and exercises, and the sentences given in the grammar lessons in small print, including the footnotes2-the English translation, either from the main book or the key3-the attached grammatical explanations from the lessons

The whole book and key are thus spread across about 13k cards. It took me about 3 and a half years to input and learn all these cards, but it really improved my facility with Latin. I'd be happy to share it with anyone interested. Just email me and I can send you a link to the Googledrive folder I've got it in. Robert

I do not know the rationale behind the lack of a TOC. Personally, I findd the Index (p. 691-706) quite sufficient. I do not think that there ever was a TOC as such. Or do you know of a version of Adler's Practical Grammar with an original table of content?

What are you missing exactly? Personally, I would like to have an index of the vocabulary focal points of the various lessons. Adler does not introduce the vocabulary (at least not all of it) haphazardly, but seems to cover certain concepts or word fields. At least that is my impression (I am not using the text book itself, only the exercises).

Thanks. I'm not familiar with 19th Century publishing conventions or, perhaps more relevantly, the conventions of publishing a Latin grammar / text book. But it seems very strange that he didn't do a TOC. I can't recall ever seeing a text book of any kind not having a TOC. He has divided his course into sections.. I assumed that it had been missed from the scan.

I prefer the singular "tuus" because the singular seems to be the number expected in most Q&A except where otherwise clearly indicated. But to make it more clear I will adapt the English question from the text book:

English Q&A

Has your neighbor our good bread?Change to "Has your (sg.) neighbor our good bread?" to make the number of "your" evident.

maryfinn wrote:I realize I'm several years too late, but is anybody still around who has a copy of an Anki deck with Adler? I was transcribing it into Anki on my own and this would simplify my life ENORMOUSLY.

Just to be sure: you are talking about the exercises, are you? I transcribed only those, not the vocabulary/phrase sections of the book.

Anki is oftenest used for reviewing vocabulary (it is like a set of cardboard cards, but in digital format), but it can be used for instance for cuneiform signs, as I used it. I suppose that's what it was first developed for.